His
name is Clint Hill. Now 82, CBS News spoke to him about what happened when they
reached the hospital.

Clint Hill

CBS News

CLINT
HILL: We got the governor out and put him on a gurney. Mrs. Connally went with
him into the emergency room -- trauma room two. And then we were gonna try and
help the president. I asked Mrs. Kennedy, I said, "Please let us help the
president." No response. She had a hold of him and she wouldn't let go. So
I pleaded with her again and still no response.
… And I realized the problem was she didn't want anybody to see the
condition he was in 'cause it was horrible. So I took off my suit coat, I
covered up his head, his upper back. As soon as I did that, she let go.

SCOTT PELLEY: Once the president is wheeled into the trauma room
at Parkland Hospital, what happens after that?

CLINT HILL: The senior supervisor on the trip asked me to open a
phone line to the White House in Washington. So I did. I got in touch with my senior supervisor. …
As I was talking to him, the operator cut into the phone line. He said,
"Mr. Hill, the attorney general wants to talk to you."

SCOTT PELLEY: This is the president's brother.

CLINT HILL: The president's brother, Robert Kennedy. … He said,
"Clint," he said, "What's going on down there?" … So I
explained to him that both the president and the governor had been shot and
that we were in the emergency room at Parkland Hospital. So then he said,
"Well, how bad is it?" Well, I didn't want to tell him his brother
was dead. I didn't think it was my place. So I said, "It's as bad as it
can get." And when I said that he hung up the phone.

Hill says at one o'clock, a doctor announced the president's
death, and someone asked Hill to find a casket.

SCOTT PELLEY: When you called the mortuary, what did you tell
them?

CLINT HILL: I identified myself. I told them that there had been a
shooting and that we needed a casket … immediately. And best one that they had
and that it was for the president.

SCOTT PELLEY: When you sat down with Mike Wallace for "60 Minutes" in 1975, you told
Mike that you felt that you were in some way responsible, that you could have
saved the president from that final shot. I wonder after reflecting on all
these years if you still feel that way?

CLINT HILL: Well, after that interview in 1975 with Mr. Wallace,
then in 1990 I came back here to Dallas.
I walked the area of Dealey Plaza, and I came up inside the Texas
Schoolbook Depository. And after a couple hours I came away knowing that I did
everything I could that day. … But I still had that sense of guilt and
responsibility because I was the only one who had a chance and I was unable to
do anything.

Hill helped carry the casket onto Air Force One. And before the
new president was sworn in, the first lady asked to see her longtime bodyguard.